CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Murányi, Zsófia |
|---|---|
| Title | Intentional Laggards? Explaining New Member States' Eurozone Entry Strategies in the Pre- and Post-Crisis Landscape |
| Summary | In this thesis I set out to find the causal explanation for the puzzling variation in euro adoption strategies among the new member states of the European Union, specifically targeting the behaviour of the laggards. Building on the theoretical framework of rational choice institutionalism as utilized in the Europeanization literature, I hypothesize that while the domestic propensity (comprised of economic necessity and the actions of political actors) of a country serves as an independent variable, the country-specific influence of the EU-level institutions, conceptualized as institutional credibility and flexibility, is an important intervening variable affecting outcomes. In a comparative in-depth analysis focused on the cases of Poland and Hungary, with Slovakia as a contrasting case, I find significant evidence for the claim that the role played by international institutions is complex and has direct effects on how pre-euro-accession states come to view the accession process and the rules of EMU. In this way, the thesis represents an advancement upon the “domestic politics” approach which is most common in the theoretical paradigm. |
| Supervisor | Csaba, László |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/muranyi_zsofia.pdf |
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